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Originally Posted by ecduzitgood
How old was George Burns when he died? It's hard to find a picture of him without a cigar.
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Since you want to cite celebrities as examples here are some more that smoked.......and are no longer with us:
Desi Arnaz 69 - Lung Cancer
Bankhead, Tallulah, 65, actress; lung cancer
Belanger, Mark, 54, baseball shortstop Orioles, lung cancer
Bogart, Humphrey, 57, actor; cancer of the esophagus
Boone, Richard, 64, actor; throat cancer
Brynner, Yul, 65, actor; lung cancer
Carson, Johnny, 79, talk show host; emphysema
Caruso, Enrico, 48, opera singer; absesses from pleurisy of the lungs
Chaney, Lon, 47, actor/director; lung cancer
Chapman, Graham, 48 comic ("Monty Python"); throat cancer
Clooney, Rosemary, 74, singer, actress; lung cancer
Cole, Nat "King", 45, singer, died after surgery for lung cancer
Connors, Chuck, 71; actor; lung cancer
Cooper, Gary, 60, actor; lung cancer
Davis, Jr., Sammy, 64, entertainer; throat cancer
Dewhurst, Colleen, 67, actress, lung cancer
Disney, Walt, 65, animator, producer; lung cancer
Dorsey, Jimmy, 53, musician, bandleader; lung cancer
Downey, Morton, Jr. , 67, talk show host, lung cancer
Fleming, Ian, 56, James Bond creator; heart attack
Flood, Curt, 59, baseball player/free agent advocate; throat cancer
Flynn, Errol, 50, actor; heart attack
Gable, Clark, 59, actor; heart attack
Garcia, Jerry, 53, musician (Grateful Dead); heart attack
Giamatti, Bart, 51, baseball commissioner; heart attack
Gotti, John, 61, Mafia Don, throat cancer
Grant, General Ulysses S., 63, throat cancer
Grable, Betty, 56, "pin-up" girl, actress; lung cancer
Harris, Captain Phil, 53, "Deadliest Catch" crab boat skipper; stroke
Harrison, George, 58, musician; lung cancer
Hayward, Susan, 55, actress * lung cancer
Huntley, Chet, 63, actor, news commentator; lung cancer
Jennings, Peter, 67, newscaster; lung cancer
Jones, Lindley ("Spike"), 53; comedic composer/band leader; emphysema
Landon, Michael, 54, actor, cancer of the pancreas and liver
Maris, Roger, 51, baseball player; lung cancer
Marvin, Lee, 67, actor; heart attack
McLean, David, 73;
Former TV "Marlboro Man," actor/model; lung cancer
McLure, Doug, 56; TV actor; lung cancer
McQueen, Steve, 50; actor; lung cancer
Meadows, Audrey, 71, actress; lung cancer
Moorehead, Agnes, 73, actress; lung cancer
Murrow, Edward R., 57, newscaster; lung cancer
Orbison, Roy, 52, singer, heart attack
O'Neal, Patrick, 66, actor; lung cancer
Owens, Jesse, 66, track star; lung cancer
Palmer, Robert, 54, British rock star; heart attack
Peppard, George, 66, actor; lung cancer
Pleshette, Suzanne, 70, actor; lung cancer
Powell, #^&#^&#^&#^&, 59, actor; lung cancer
Rabbitt, Eddie, 56, singer/song writer; lung cancer
Rawls, Lou, 72, singer; lung cancer
Reasoner, Harry, 68, newscaster; lung cancer
Remick, Lee, 55, actress; lung and liver cancer
Reynolds, R.J. Sr., 67,
founder of RJ Reynolds Tobacco Co., pancreatic cancer
Reynolds, R.J. Jr., 58, emphysema
Reynolds, R.J. III, 60, emphysema, (1994)
Ruth, Babe, 53, baseball player. Naso-pharyngeal cancer
Serling, Rod, 51, writer/director; smoked 4 packs a day; heart disease
Shaw, Robert, 51, actor; heart attack
Sullivan, Ed, 72, entertainer; lung cancer
Swayze , Patrick, 57, actor ("Dirty Dancing" "Ghost"); pancreatic cancer
Tierney, Gene, 70, actress; emphysema
Tracy, Spencer, 66, actor; lung congestion; heart attack
Tucker, Forrest, 67, actor; lung cancer and emphysema
Turner, Lana, 74, actress; throat cancer
Varney, Jim, 50, actor; lung cancer
Walker, Nancy, 69, actress; lung cancer
Wells, Mary, 49, singer; larynx cancer
Wilson, Carl, 51, musician (Beach Boys); complications from lung cancer
Williams, Tex, 68, country-western singer; lung cancer
Wolfman Jack, 57, radio personality, actor; heart attack
York, #^&#^&#^&#^&, 63, actor; emphysema
But At least George Burns did OK....Sooooo...Go Ahead...Smoke'em if you got'em.
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